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- ... that a cruffin is a hybrid of a croissant and a muffin, popularized by Mr. Holmes Bakehouse in San Francisco?
- ... that herpetologist Joseph Richard Slevin is commemorated in the scientific names of over a dozen species or subspecies of animals and plants?
- ... that UC Hastings College of Law professor Dorit Rubinstein Reiss (pictured) has called for examination of the possible legal liabilities which should be faced by parents who opt for non-vaccination, including those who obtain legal exemptions?
- ... that the Rio Vista Bridge (pictured) won an American Institute of Steel Construction class IV (movable bridges) prize bridge award in 1960?
- ... that San Francisco music studio Golden State Recorders recorded the Grateful Dead's Birth of the Dead in 1965, which was not released until 2003?
- ... that U.C. Berkeley professor Richard M. Eakin gave lectures dressed as Charles Darwin, Louis Pasteur, and other famous scientists, one of whom he knew personally?
- ... that biologist Robert C. Stebbins once dosed Galápagos lava lizards with radiation and tracked them with a Geiger counter?
July 2015